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Yes, minors and young defendants need training, mentoring, an encouraging environment and rehabilitation rather than to be thrown in jail and forgotten by society. The entire theory of beging "tough on crime" is a joke when it leaves 15-year-olds to spend ten or twenty years in prison because a gang was the only place they could fine people who cared about them. What kind of message are we sending to the youth when we punish them in a way that says they're "damned if they do, and damned if they don't?"